Point of View June 17, 2024 – Hour 2 : Topics in the Headlines

[00:00:00] Joint Interview with Joe Rosenberg And having watched Joel Rosenberg's The Rosenberg Report by TVN this weekend and seeing on his particular program some of the various visuals as well as those individuals that were actually

[00:00:51] recording what was taking place, once you have the head cam footage you can begin to recognize that even some of the comments I made last Monday where I was trying to be fair and say here's what Hamas was saying obviously were propaganda.

[00:01:06] And so again I think if you want to be able to have some level of discernment that's what we talk about here on Point of View. Then I do want to get fairly practical, there's a very good piece here that's talked about the politically made insurance panic.

[00:01:21] If you are paying for insurance right now, and I'm sure most of you are, home insurance, car insurance, medical insurance, the sticker shock has got to be concerning you. And of course always you have, whether it's President Biden or Senator Elizabeth Warren blaming the insurance companies.

[00:01:38] And I'm not here to be a shill for the insurance companies but there are some very good reasons why some of those prices have gone up. And a related issue is why we also at the same time have so many drug shortages.

[00:01:52] If we had Dr. Merrill Matthews on the roundtable this Friday maybe I'd wait and let him do some of this because he's certainly an expert on that but I think I can do a pretty good

[00:02:00] job with it as well and explain why costs seem to be going up and we can get into that in some detail in just a few minutes. Same time we've got to recognize that we're getting closer and closer to the first presidential debate, can you believe that?

[00:02:15] And Roger Kimball is still convinced that there could be a different candidate running for the Democrats, especially after that debate so we've got that piece there for you as well. If we have time I'm going to get into some other very interesting topics so there's a

[00:02:30] lot to cover and we will do our best this week to cover as many as we possibly can. But the first article there is by Beckett Adams and he says look Hamas gets the benefit

[00:02:39] of the doubt and Israel doesn't get it time after time and he says something's wrong with this picture because his argument is very simple quote Hamas is treated as a credible source even a partner it's trusted to provide accurate information and to adhere to international

[00:02:54] norms regarding humanitarian treatment and the rules of engagement. Hamas on the other hand he says is treated to as a bad faith actor it's every statement is doubted some journalists appear to operate from a position best summed up as when in

[00:03:09] doubt assume Israel has committed a crime against humanity. Okay he set forth the principles and he says basically if you want to think about it this way I thought was a good turn of phrase the press treats the sovereign nation as a terrorist

[00:03:24] cell and the press treats a terrorist cell as a sovereign nation. I thought that was a good turn of phrase and nowhere is this more clear than of course what happened about a week ago and that was the rescuing of these four hostages which again

[00:03:41] if you want to learn a little bit more about how that was done it is amazing how the IDF dressed up as Arabs the women were having head scarfs and the rest they were able to

[00:03:53] infiltrate in there as well and then the result of that was then after some intense gunfire from the Hamas terrorist CNN claimed that Israel had failed to provide evidence that the team came under a fire under the operation.

[00:04:11] In particular where they were quoting from the IDF forces rear admiral Dan Hagarai said that the IDF has come under intense fire especially after withdrawing from the apartments but did not provide evidence and as Beckett Adams points out this is kind of awkward because

[00:04:28] if you read a little bit further in the article for CNN it says that a CNN analyst witnessed and confirmed a robust firefight immediately after the hostages were secured. It doesn't mean there wasn't one before it just means that even they admitted that there

[00:04:43] was a firefight and then of course later that day CNN kind of backed off a little bit because then the IDF actually revealed and released and allowed review of the helmet cam footage which showed that indeed they had come under heavy fire.

[00:05:02] Well of course that wasn't the issue that caused most people the biggest outrage because the argument was and I've seen a number of numbers you know 274 and a couple of other numbers that more than 200 civilians were killed during this.

[00:05:23] Well now it turns out of course the source of that is what? Well CNN calls them the Gazan authorities but that's basically Hamas which of course we've already learned in previous commentaries and other investigations that this claim that

[00:05:41] more than 30,000 people in Gaza have been killed civilians when we know a very high percentage of those but very well documented because we do have the head cam hand camera footage of some of this are indeed people firing back at you with weapons.

[00:06:01] You can understand those I think we could not call civilians we would have to call terrorists and yet of course that 30,000 figure has been quoted by President Biden and will be quoted next week during the presidential debate. I guarantee it.

[00:06:15] So here's how the headlines read and tell me if there isn't just a real bias against Israel and a preference for Gaza. Associated Press how an Israeli raid freed four hostages and killed at least 274 Palestinians in Gaza.

[00:06:35] Los Angeles Times starts with 274 Palestinians killed in Israeli rescue which what are they emphasizing there? How about the BBC? Gaza Health Ministry says Israeli hostage rescue killed 274 Palestinians that one didn't even have the four hostages in there.

[00:06:57] And so you can kind of understand that if you are obviously going to trust the Gazan authorities which would be what are called the Gazan Health Ministry or maybe if you will the Gazan Propaganda Ministry that you'd put the 274 Palestinians first if indeed you

[00:07:19] have watched some of that video and again you don't have to take my word for it. You can watch some of it that has already been posted or you can go to the Joel Rosenberg

[00:07:30] report and see the IDF helmet camera footage for yourself and see it is amazing that they actually the IDF only lost their one leader and could have lost so many more lives there as well.

[00:07:47] And again as Beckett Adams reminds us, do the journalists know that Hamas is a terrorist cell because the coverage it says is really backward. You could say that it makes no sense this disparity is how the press treats Hamas versus

[00:08:02] Israel but this is the world we live in which a democratic free country's numbers are treated with more skepticism than those of blood soaked terrorist groups. Again let's recognize that in the fog of war both sides are going to lie.

[00:08:18] We understand that but to trust one group and not the other especially when that one group is a terrorist cell and the other is a sovereign nation I think illustrates how so much of this

[00:08:30] coverage has been backwards and if nothing else reminds us once again to have some discernment when we read the news. Let's take a break. We have a lot more to cover. We'll do that right after this. This is Viewpoints with Kirby Anderson.

[00:09:02] Kids aren't growing up but you already knew that. But we now have more evidence for why this is a significant problem. Now in the past I've quoted from the book The Coddling of the American Mind by the co-author Jonathan Haidt who I interviewed on our radio program.

[00:09:15] He argues that young people are fragile and have been protected by a culture that promotes safety at all costs. In a new book Abigail Schreier takes a different look at the problem by focusing on how psychology has become an all-consuming ideology.

[00:09:29] She argues in her book In Bad Therapy why kids aren't growing up that much of what has been said and written about psychological and emotional trauma is wrong. She goes on to argue that they would be better off if they had no therapy at all.

[00:09:44] Now you might remember her previous book Irreversible Damage the Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters. In my interview with her and in her book she documents the push to medically transition girls who may merely have gender dysphoria.

[00:09:58] Her new book picks up on that concern by examining our therapy-obsessed culture. Both Jonathan Haidt and Abigail Schreier reveal that the younger generations are sadder and more emotionally distraught than previous generations. She goes on to argue that our anti-adversity worldview is to blame. Therapy has become an ideology.

[00:10:19] By talking about trauma and then treating it we have robbed an entire generation of character qualities like grit, perseverance and resilience. Instead the writer of Hebrews reminds us to run with endurance the race that is set before us.

[00:10:33] James said that we are blessed if we remain steadfast under trial. I'm Kirby Anderson and that's my point of view. For a free booklet on the biblical view on wokeness go to viewpoints.info.com That's viewpoints.info.com

[00:10:58] You're listening to Point of View, your listener supported source for truth. Let's get back to what is happening in your household and we'll get into two issues. One, the issue of insurance and the sticker shock that many of us are facing

[00:11:14] as well as for those of you that actually need access to certain pharmaceuticals why are we having drug shortages right now. None of this I think would surprise Dr. Muriel Matthews who comes on our program on a pretty regular basis

[00:11:29] even a couple weeks ago actually served as the co-host or guest host for Point of View but let me if I can explain some of that and we don't have to go very far because the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal talked about the insurance shock

[00:11:45] or the insurance panic that they talk about is politically made and again they have a picture of Senator Elizabeth Warren and whether it's Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren or Joe Biden or a number of others whenever prices go up it's always due to greedy corporate interest.

[00:12:03] Now I'm not here to actually say that there isn't greed on the part of corporations they don't certainly in many cases actually do manipulate prices but we do have somewhat of a competitive market and frankly if you thought one insurance company was charging too much

[00:12:22] you can shop around and see if there's another company that might provide the same benefits at a lower cost in a true free market and I recognize it's very regulated so I'm not going to necessarily always try to make the case that this is a totally free market

[00:12:37] but in the market we have there are choices and so that illustrates quite a bit and as the editors of the Wall Street Journal put it most readers by now have experienced a sticker shock with their latest auto and homeowner insurance policies

[00:12:53] might mention also they don't talk about medical we'll get to that in just a minute that's going up for a different set of reasons but let's just help people understand auto insurance rates have gone up 46% since January more than in the eight previous years combined

[00:13:09] so something's happening right now which is much more significant homeowner premiums have increased 37% since 2019 and 5.8% in the first three months this year if you live in these states and most of you are listening from some of these states Arizona, Illinois, Texas, California and Florida

[00:13:32] it gives all of the numbers so if you find by the way for those of you in Arizona my heart goes out to you you're the worst of the bunch but all the way down to other places where we broadcast Michigan, Wisconsin, South Carolina and the rest

[00:13:47] so what we're dealing with is an incredible increase in premiums if you haven't noticed yet maybe your premiums haven't come due but you will why? well we have two possible explanations first of all the progressives they say claim what else? Climate change

[00:14:08] did you know climate change is responsible for everything in the world and corporate greed of course you had to put those two together and then they profit from selling protection from the impacts of those fossil fuels on climate that's a bit of a logical fallacy there

[00:14:28] but we'll leave it as it is and now the climate risks are rising they're trying to hang American families out to dry and demanding either higher premiums or to get out of the market altogether the editors of the Wall Street Journal say well no

[00:14:43] the actual culprit is a storm a bad storm of what? inflation litigation abuse and government made dysfunctions that's the triumvirate there if you will that have exacerbated by a series of of course bad weather and so there are some reasons for that

[00:15:04] and I'm not surprised when two times over the last six years I have been in a home that has had such hail damage that we've had to get two roofs I would like to have just kept the one we had a couple years ago

[00:15:19] but the storm last year required that we change off the roof again not surprised if my premiums go up for that reason but let's get to auto insurance you might say okay I can maybe see some of that what about auto insurance?

[00:15:34] well let's just remember a few things we had the pandemic and the lockdown what was one of the items that increased in price the most? well that was used vehicles and so when you add used vehicles to the new vehicle prices those have increased 29% for used vehicles

[00:15:57] 20% for new vehicles and again you have the price of vehicles going up sometimes people will say the evidence that climate change is so bad is the number of people that are filing claims or the amount of the claims

[00:16:15] but if a hurricane which may not have anything to do necessarily with climate change or an earthquake which I'm sure has nothing to do with climate change actually rocks a very expensive home that's going to be more expensive I hope you can understand that

[00:16:30] some people don't seem to get it but that's the case and so then if you start looking at auto inflation for new vehicles used vehicles, vehicle insurance, vehicle parts, vehicle repair you can see all of those have gone up a lot of that has to do with inflation

[00:16:46] but there's one other issue that the editors of the Wall Street Journal mention and that is they say the progressive anti-police movement has reduced traffic enforcement resulting in more reckless driving and accidents deaths from alcohol related crashes have risen by a third since 2019

[00:17:09] even as arrests for driving under the influence and traffic citations have fallen 20% effect meet cause they say so again you can see there are some very good reasons and a lot of those come back to the things we've talked about in this program day after day

[00:17:29] when you have defund the police and you have fewer people out there pulling people over for drunk driving you have more people driving drunk you have more accidents from drunk driving and thus you can see that is the case

[00:17:45] you also have fewer people being pulled over for reckless driving and so reckless driving leads to more accidents which leads to the need for insurance companies to either raise your deductible or raise your rate usually both in order to even make a profit

[00:18:04] and so you can see this as well then one last one they point out that insurers use what are called catastrophe models to project potential damage from natural disasters but the problem is what you have in some states I'm looking at you now California

[00:18:25] is that the regulators in the Golden State don't allow insurers to fully price the risk of say a wildfire or reinsurance costs into those premiums and so as a result they also have been slow to approve rate changes well guess what happens

[00:18:45] the insurers say well we'll just leave the state and the bottom line is storms and wildfires are creating more damage but that's also due to something else because the costs are up because the building values and the repair costs have soared because of what? inflation

[00:19:07] and because of house prices increasing so quickly and higher interest rates declining profitability making it more expensive for insurers to raise capital pushing up premiums you can go through this if you will this terrible storm this very significant storm and it's a bad storm of inflation

[00:19:29] a bad storm that also includes litigation abuse and regulation and of course government made dysfunctions and so hence we have politically made insurance panic we come back from the break I thought I would also talk briefly

[00:19:44] and very briefly because we don't want to get into that in such detail about the fact that we also have drug shortages but it comes back to again some of those economic issues but it also brings me back to what I mentioned just a few minutes ago

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[00:23:10] and now here again is Kirby Anderson let me again talk about a couple of very important issues that are related to what you are dealing with we talked about insurance just a minute ago and I think most of you pay insurance

[00:23:24] you also probably are in a household where somebody needs access to certain pharmaceuticals and we are now hitting with one of the most significant shortages drug shortages in a decade and that's saying something when you recognize we were facing some drug shortages during the pandemic

[00:23:44] and lockdown which of course took place because of the supply chain issues but much of what is happening now was actually created by the current administration to understand that, think about two economic cliches both of which are true

[00:24:04] the first one is there's no such thing as a free lunch you've heard that a few times haven't you? no such thing as a free lunch then the second one is to pay for a free lunch politicians have to rob Peter to pay Paul

[00:24:19] so both of those are true and that's exactly what we find ourselves with because it is clear that part of the problem but only a small part of the problem in terms of some of the drug shortages which you or your loved ones may face

[00:24:35] is due to supply chain issues much more of it has to do with what are called medical price controls and when you talk about medical price controls we shouldn't be surprised that that is a problem let me quote from a very prominent economist African-American Thomas Sowell

[00:24:56] who in his book Basic Economics which I think should be required reading for members of Congress talked about the fact that most shortages, I think he even says all but I'll change it slightly most shortages are price created phenomenon

[00:25:13] because if prices were left alone for the relevant market forces shortages probably would never occur so we have right now a situation in which the June report of United States Pharmacopeia an independent non-profit group has actually said that we are hitting shortages

[00:25:36] which are hitting a decade high and we're there in 2023 are actually following us into 2024 so if we can use the there's no such thing as a free lunch and the way to pay for free gifts is for politicians to rob Peter to pay Paul

[00:25:58] it comes down to something very simple you may remember a while back where President Biden signed into law what was called the so-called inflation reduction act we've had a lot of fun with that one because it is doubtful that it had anything to do with inflation

[00:26:15] but one of the things that it did require and we've heard Dr. Merrill Matthews talk about this on numerous occasions is that it created a situation in which you had quote negotiated price caps

[00:26:28] on various prescription drugs and so even a year ago there were people that were predicting that what the inflation reduction act would do would have to have the rob Peter to pay Paul effect while the new price controls according to an individual writing in Reason magazine

[00:26:47] while the new price controls will make some drugs cheaper in the short run Americans will become sicker and deadlier in the long run than they otherwise would have been because in some cases where those prices are negotiated at a price that the pharmaceutical company

[00:27:05] does not think it can make a profit on it what will they do? well they simply won't manufacture those and so as a result yes those few individuals who actually have drugs still being produced will enjoy the fact that those prices have remained steady

[00:27:24] which at a time remaining steady at a time when the cost is going up and everything else inflation is going up and everything else but the long-term impact which is now starting to be felt is that many of those pharmaceuticals will not be manufactured

[00:27:43] now it turns out that at the moment some of those particular places where we're seeing it the most are with some of the injectables which maybe most of you don't have to deal with

[00:27:56] but it only takes a manage of time before some other things will begin to be affected by that as well and so again it's just basic economics once you have price controls or negotiated price controls you hope that that would keep all the prices low

[00:28:15] but the reality is if you can't make a profit the pharmaceutical companies aren't going to manufacture those drugs and then you end up with what? drug shortages pretty simple economics and it's just again one of those concerns that I think we need to address time and time again

[00:28:34] because economics is supply and demand and economics is based upon whether a company, a for-profit company can make a profit or not it's not going to continue producing things at a loss for a very long period of time

[00:28:50] and that of course is exactly why we are starting to see some of those drug shortages that may affect you, maybe not you but maybe a loved one and that's something to be concerned about

[00:29:02] just before we take a break let me just mention that one of the other articles I posted is by Roger Kimble and what I did basically is take this subtitle Is it too late to change candidates? his article actually is entitled Further Thoughts about the Foreseeable Future

[00:29:21] in which he actually spends three full pages talking about how we have done a very poor job of predicting the future and so it isn't until you get to page four that you run into actually the topic I want to address

[00:29:36] and that is he says pollsters are busy taking the pulse of voters and pundits are doing their best to parse the data and begin to make some predictions

[00:29:47] he says it pains me to say that many of them are in the position of of course some of the people he has quoted that were making predictions about the Roman army or the Sicilian battles in the first Punic war

[00:30:02] but nevertheless goes on to say that I sometimes wonder how much reliable our tools of prognostication are everyone is so rambling to second guess what will happen on November 5th who will win Joe Biden or Donald Trump? he says I have an opinion so do you

[00:30:21] but what makes us so certain that the contest will even be between Biden and Trump? anyone who has watched Joe Biden's performance at Normandy on D-Day must have doubts about his fate and of course there are other issues associated with that which we talked about on Friday

[00:30:39] and he says at the moment most observers say well it is just too late to change candidates the Democrats are stuck with Joe Biden but he asks the question are they? maybe but ask yourself this do you suppose that Joe Biden would be able to complete another term?

[00:30:56] since you answered of course no you couldn't ask yourself this further question how would you feel about Kamala Harris as president? all bets are that if Joe Biden is the candidate Harris will be the running mate

[00:31:11] I suspect that people who actually run the White House are desperately trying to figure out how they can remove her from the ticket but so far as I know one has been able to make an offer she can't refuse

[00:31:23] but again what happens after the debate next week? we'll see on the other side he says then there's Donald Trump Ken you have a jury in New York convicted him on 34 felony counts and of course what will happen?

[00:31:38] really nobody knows it's possibly says that judge Merchant may actually put him in jail on July 11th what then? he says the point is simply that the play we signed up to see may be canceled in favor of another performance with a different set of characters

[00:32:01] of course there's always the case that's always could be the case events have a way of intervening in some of the most unexpected and unexpected ways we seek to insulate ourselves from the unexpected through many expedients

[00:32:15] often we are successful or at least things turn out in ways we expect and then we conclude that we are successful sometimes though we are actually surprised by what actually unfolds before our very eyes so it's a nice reminder that even though at this late date

[00:32:34] even with a presidential debate taking place next week and then a Republican and Democratic convention we assume that our two choices will be Joe Biden and Donald Trump maybe there's always a possibility something could change and the election as he points out is five months away

[00:32:54] later in his article he says that some people have said that five months is an eternity and some things could happen between now and then and it's just a reminder that we are in a very tumultuous time

[00:33:08] and that's all the more reason to recognize that what unfolds next week at that presidential debate might change a lot of people's perception of what November 5th looks like so that article is there for you to read

[00:33:23] it's fascinating to remind us of all the other attempts to predict the future that were wrong and is it possible we could be wrong this time as well we'll find that out soon enough let's take a break, have a couple more issues to address

[00:33:36] we'll do that right after these important messages let me just mention that tomorrow will be our millennial roundtable so I think you'll really appreciate that conversation taking place all the way to Friday we'll have Jeff Matier and Pena Dexter

[00:34:14] one of the things that we'll be talking about with Jeff Matier and Pena Dexter we've already kind of put that together is the number of states that are challenging the Biden administration about transgender rules and girls being forced to have boys play in their sports

[00:34:32] pretending to be girls and all those kinds of things but another issue that I also hope Pena will be addressing because right now, very interestingly enough as we are talking about the National Defense Authorization Act and you might remember last week we had Michael McCall on

[00:34:49] we talked about the NDA, the National Defense Authorization Act but right now in the U.S. Armed Services Committee they want to add a requirement to actually require women to register for selective service as part of the National Defense Authorization Act

[00:35:06] first of all, of course, what it does is increase pay support for military members it also amends the Military Selective Service Act to require the registration of women for selective service so I wanted to get Pena's commentary on that

[00:35:23] going all the way back to really even the 1970s and 1980s the battle for the Equal Rights Amendment people like Phyllis Schlafly and others arguing that if you actually endorse the ERA what you would do is then force women to actually serve in the military

[00:35:44] and register for the draft and those kinds of things what then was somewhat controversial may not be all that controversial now and almost unavoidable given so many legal precedents coming down saying that you have to treat men and women equally

[00:35:59] that I think is just one of those interesting topics that I would love to get some perspective and we will get some perspective from Pena Dexter on Friday on requiring women to register for the draft we of course have not had a draft any time soon

[00:36:16] but we might and it's something to think about and just a good illustration again that things you would have thought would have been maybe unthinkable say a few decades ago might not even be important enough to register in some people's consciousness

[00:36:33] and you probably first heard about this right here on Point of View and we'll talk about it again on Friday last article is entitled by Anthony Kessler The Dial Toning of AI he says you know artificial intelligence is a feature not a product

[00:36:50] and like every other technology it's starting to fade into the background and then points out that Apple last week announced that it is embedding generative AI technology into Siri and other applications into iPhones including the deal with open AI

[00:37:09] I did mention it last week but it of course has now become a source of some conversation Andy Kessler goes on to say that most Google searches now include AI overview I don't know if you knew that but that is the case

[00:37:25] Microsoft has branded Copilot plus PCs for new Windows hardware and it sure looks like AI is on its way to being dial toned okay so what do I mean by that? well he says it was a Boston telephone operator strike in 1919

[00:37:44] that ushered in the era of dial tones to replace humans a pleasing tone delivered simplicity musically asking callers number please hiding all the complexity he says of relay switches, tubes and amplifiers AT&T was a hot stock in the 1920s as phones proliferated

[00:38:04] same for companies deploying other advanced technologies such as radio eventually investors stopped caring technology almost always vanishes from sight on its way to become more productive and ubiquitous does that mean the end of the current AI hype cycle? soon enough

[00:38:23] he says we live in a dial tone world extraordinary complexity made it so simple that it disappears push a button and your car starts fill it with gas and vroom vroom you're off ignorant of drilling, refining and pipelines or charge your electric vehicle by plugging it in

[00:38:42] not knowing or caring about transmission lines, generators or emissions we've been dial toned complexity disappears same for cell phones no dial tones but coverage bars similar dissolve the complexity most users think 5G service arrives via immaculate reception rather than comprehending

[00:39:06] he goes through this long technical issue of what that involves and you can recognize that as somebody that has done photography for years I was interacting with somebody the other day about a single lens reflex

[00:39:19] all the things you had to figure out in terms of using a light meter and then you got digital photography and now all of the very complex AI that often times I've had to do manually on Lightroom or other things is actually in your cell phone

[00:39:36] and taking just incredible pictures I find myself leaving my fairly expensive cameras on the floor or in a bag because I can take such great pictures today with a camera phone and actually it does all the things I had to do post process or even in a darkroom

[00:39:57] amazing he then goes on and tells us one story I'm glad you brought it up by comedian Louis C.K which he was talking about he was telling the story the first time he was on an airplane where they actually had internet service

[00:40:13] and internet service comes from via tech and I know some people used to work for that and so he's on there and all of a sudden the internet service ends and he immediately throws a hissy fit and he says this is a guy who on a flight

[00:40:29] complains when the internet stops working when the comedian noted how quickly the world owes him something he knew existed only 10 seconds ago and that I think illustrates the fact it's a great comedy routine that he does about the fact that when we used to get on an airplane

[00:40:47] we never thought we'd have internet then we had internet and then if internet isn't working as it was on the latest flight I was in we complain because as he says we've all been what? dial-toned well he finishes off with this the fade is going to probably exist

[00:41:04] and eventually AI is being dial-toned as he puts it hidden between apps and devices and eventually to some efficient interface $20 a month for chat GDP doesn't seem like too much to pay for those Nvidia chips new products, markets, business models are needed much as PCs spawn desktop publishing

[00:41:28] and expanded investment banking and smartphones enabled Uber something's got to pay for the dial-tone technology but the point he's making is we're already sort of living in an artificial intelligence world if you do a Google search that is the case but I will point out something

[00:41:47] that was able to document in a few commentaries and then saw that it was actually being mentioned on the news and that is the energy necessities for AI are like an AI search is 17 times more than a Google search and so if we're going to move towards AI

[00:42:12] we're going to have to build a lot more data centers we're going to have to get a lot more energy at a time when we aren't even sure we have enough energy to keep the lights on much less charge all the electric cars

[00:42:24] and we're going to have to rethink some significant priorities very quickly so again those are the kinds of things we like to talk about every once in a while yes I do have a booklet on artificial intelligence yes there are some real dangers

[00:42:38] and yes we need to think about that as well that's what we talk about here on Point of View if you find yourself wanting to know a little bit more about Sam Joelman's book The Sex Talk You Never Got you'd like to see some of the articles

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